This Envisat MERIS image of Hurricane Dean was acquired on 20 August 2007 (16:00 UTC) and shows the storm a few hours before hitting the Yucatan coast in Mexico. At the time of image acquisition, Dean was a Category-4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, with wind approaching 250 km/h, i.e. close to becoming a Category-5 hurricane. The MERIS image is in Reduced Resolution mode with a spatial resolution of 1200 metres.